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Attack Theatre co-directors Peter Kope and Michele de la Reza have been recognized as "a masterful and dynamite duo...the Fred and Ginger of the 90's where Ginger does most of the lifting." Attack Theatre collaborates with artists from many disciplines to create performances and events featuring elements from many art forms.
 

 

Attack Theatre has been making personal, accessible and collaborative dance-based performances with "ninja-like intensity" (Pittsburgh Tribune Review) for more than a decade. They combine modern dance, original live music, multimedia and interdisciplinary art forms to present work in traditional and nontraditional spaces throughout the United States and around the world. They have collaborated with major regional theaters (Quantum Theatre), NYC Broadway productions (Squonk), museums (Carnegie Museum of Art, Andy Warhol Museum, Frick Art Museum, Mattress Factory), symphonies (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra), operas (Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, Spoleto USA) and international dance companies (Japan's Nibroll Collective and Belgium's Compagnie Matteo Moles), presenting nearly 100 original works in theatrical and stie specific settings. While maintaining a loyal audience in their home base of Pittsburgh, they have toured Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Carolina, the District of Columbia, Texas, Washington, and New York; and internationally, throughout France, Monaco, Germany, Switzerland, Indonesia, Turkey, and Japan.

Gaining national recognition, Attack Theatre was featured in Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch" in 2007, the recent Games of Steel was selected for the prestigious 2006-2007 National Dance Project  (New England Foundation for the Arts) and appeared in seven theaters nationwide and The Kitchen Sink was chosen as "Best Dance of 2006" by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Attack Theatre is a three-time recipient of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship award, the Harry Schwalb Excellence in the Arts award and the Hardie Award as Arts Educator of the Year for 2006. Peter Kope and Michele de la Reza have been named five times as one of the Top 50 Cultural Leaders of Pittsburgh by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette (2002-06); and in 2004, the Governor of Pennsylvania's Silver and Gold Award recognized Attack Theatre's excellence for innovative services for the elderly.

Attack Theatre also conducts residencies in contemporary dance, creative movement and aesthetic education in universities, primary and secondary schools, arts festivals and community centers. The company's outreach programs focus on demystifying the artistic process and building community.

The company's repertoire carries an audience on a journey of wide ranging emotions with daring, passionate and dramatic choreography. The company's dancers, musicians, designers, video artists and actors collaborate for an engaging evening of theatricality. With humor, pathos, and virtuosity this company of performers ever entertains. An engaging show of duets, and interactive process/performance in museum galleries, a stunning large scale proscenium concert of dance, music and video... Attack Theatre doea not shy from confrontation, but seeks to understand why it troubles us.